Identity verification
Match the submitted company to its registered legal identity.
Solution
Verify businesses against official company registries
Confirm that a business exists, resolve it to the correct legal entity and inspect the people and ownership around it using evidence from official registries.
DATA LINEAGE
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Official registryLegal records and filings
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Structured recordNormalised, digitised and resolved
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Connected contextPeople, ownership and linkages
Source provenance retained
What it delivers
Built around the legal entity and its evidence.
People and ownership
Review directors, officers and disclosed shareholders where available.
Evidence retention
Keep registry source, identifier and filing context with the result.
Where it fits
Designed for operational workflows, not static reports.
Customer onboarding
Merchant verification
Business account opening
Periodic review
A reviewable KYB workflow
Resolve the legal entity before you apply risk policy.
A KYB check should produce evidence and an explicit review state—not a generic pass generated from an incomplete record. The exact checks, sources and decision rules depend on the jurisdiction, product and risk policy.
Capture the submitted identity
Keep the name, jurisdiction, registered address and company number exactly as the business supplied them. Preserve the original input so reviewers can explain a mismatch later.
Resolve the registry entity
Search the relevant official source and separate similarly named companies using the registration identifier, legal form, status and address. An unresolved candidate should remain unresolved.
Inspect people and ownership
Review directors, officers, disclosed shareholders and corporate relationships where the source and jurisdiction provide them. Missing ownership fields are unavailable evidence, not proof that no owner exists.
Retain evidence and decide
Store the source, retrieval time, identifiers, material filings and discrepancies. Apply sanctions, risk and acceptance policy as separate controls owned by the appropriate team.
Read the result correctly
Company evidence supports a decision. It is not the decision.
Identity aligned
The submitted company and registry record agree on the material identity fields. Continue with the ownership, screening and policy checks your workflow requires.
Material fields differ
Pause and review the name, number, jurisdiction or status difference. Do not silently replace the applicant’s entity with the nearest search result.
Source or field unavailable
Keep the limitation visible and follow an approved retry or alternative-evidence path. Unavailable data is neither a positive match nor a rejection.
Implementation checklist
Questions to settle before production.
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Which official registry and fields support the countries you onboard? Review registry sources and country coverage.
Which fields must agree, what can be normalised, and when must a human review ambiguity or a status discrepancy?
Which shareholder, director and linkage fields are available, and which separate UBO or screening controls remain outside this data step?
Will the workflow retain the registry identifier, source, retrieval time and material filing context with the decision?
How will the team use documented refresh cadence, periodic review and counterparty monitoring?
Choose company search, REST API, bulk feeds or MCP according to volume, governance and permitted access.
Buyer questions
What a defensible evaluation should establish.
Does the data fit this portfolio?
Test a representative set of known companies across target jurisdictions. Report missing records and fields alongside matches; a country name on a coverage list is not a completeness guarantee.
Can a reviewer trace the claim?
Inspect the source, registry identifier, retrieval context and underlying filing where available. Normalised data should stay connected to the official evidence it represents.
Can the team handle exceptions?
Measure ambiguous matches, discrepancy reviews, unavailable-source retries and decision latency. Do not reduce a complex company record to an unexplained green tick.
Common questions
About business verification & kyb
What is Business verification & KYB?
Business verification & KYB is part of Zephira’s registry-sourced company-data platform. Verify company identity, registration status, directors and ownership using traceable official registry records.
Where does the underlying company data come from?
Zephira starts with official company registries and filed documents, then preserves source metadata as records are structured, resolved and enriched.
How can I access business verification & kyb?
Depending on the workflow, Zephira data can be accessed through company search, REST API, bulk data feeds or MCP for AI agents.
Who uses business verification & kyb?
Compliance, risk, data, product and AI teams use business verification & kyb when they need structured company facts with clear provenance.
Where does the data for business verification & kyb come from?
Official company registries and filed company documents are the starting point. Source context is retained so users can trace material facts.
Which countries are supported for business verification & kyb?
Coverage is jurisdiction-specific. Review the registry directory and field-availability pages for the documented source, fields and limitations in each country.
How current is the information used by business verification & kyb?
Freshness depends on the source registry and field. Zephira records retrieval context and documents refresh cadence rather than implying that every field updates continuously.
How does business verification & kyb preserve provenance?
Registry identifiers, source classification and retrieval metadata remain linked to the company record wherever the underlying source provides them.
Can business verification & kyb be accessed through an API?
Yes. Relevant company-data capabilities can be delivered through Zephira’s REST API, bulk feeds, company search or MCP, depending on the workflow.
How should missing fields in business verification & kyb be interpreted?
A missing field means the value was not returned for that record or source. It should not be treated as proof that the fact does not exist.
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